Rep. Subramanyam Says the FBI and DOJ Wiretapped His Calls With Virginia's Senate Leader

Rep. Suhas Subramanyam of Virginia said on September 3 that the FBI and the Justice Department had notified him they intercepted some of his phone calls with Virginia Senate President Pro Tempore Louise Lucas. His office released photographs of two letters, dated July and August, disclosing the monitoring. According to the letters a federal judge authorized the interception in April, and federal agents searched Lucas's office and a cannabis dispensary she co-owned a month later. No charges have been filed against Lucas, who denies wrongdoing and calls the investigation politically motivated.

Surveillance that sweeps in a sitting member of Congress raises separation-of-powers questions regardless of whether that member is a target.

Subramanyam, who sits on the House Oversight Committee, called the timing extremely suspicious, noting it overlapped with a Virginia redistricting referendum push Lucas championed and with Oversight Democrats' demands for Epstein records. His statement does not say he was a target. The FBI declined to comment; the Justice Department did not respond.